Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Things Change ❯ Conscience? ( Chapter 4 )

Looks like I got this chapter done sooner than I thought. Anyway, here it is:

Summary: Joey and Kaiba always had, if you would call it that, a daily routine at school: Kaiba always came with an insult to him, then Joey snapped and got angry and it went on from there. One day, Kaiba comes up, looking to do the usual insults, but he is in for a rude awakening. (Not Literally)

Pairings so far: JoeyxOC, KaibaxOC.

In detention, Kaiba just sat in the back row while everyone else was doing their thing. Normally if he didn't have anything important to do, he'd take out his laptop to do some work. However, since he wasn't allowed to, he'd have to just sit quietly and what appeared to be drawing.

"Wheeler will pay for this insult…" He muttered to himself as he drew. At a closer glance, it appeared to be a picture of himself stabbing a person who appeared to be Joey, only in a dog suit. On the top were scratch-like words which read "Die Wheeler!" "It's his fault I'm in this hell hole in the first place! If he would've been a good dog and take his insults the way he supposed to, I-"

"Wouldn't be here in the first place?" A voice similar to his but a bit younger finished for him.

"Exactly! Finally someone who- Huh?" Kaiba looked to the right for the source of the voice. Much to his shock, it was a kid wearing a navy vest over a yellow long-sleeved collared shirt, black pants, and grey sneakers. The bigger shock was that he looked exactly like him, only years younger.

"Who are you?" He hissed. "If Noah managed to-"

"I'm your conscience, Seto Kaiba! Don't you remember me?" The smaller, more younger version of Kaiba walked over to an empty chair beside him and sit down. I've only just taken the appearance of your younger self.

"I think you have me confused with someone who actually has one."

"Now now Seto, you've haven't seen me for so long that you forgot you had one." He sighed. "So Detention…how'd you get yourself here?"

"Wheeler…" He hissed. "It's his fault I'm in here!"

"Really?"

"Yes really! He's the cause of all of my problems!"

"What did Joey Wheeler do that caused you so many problems?"

"I'll tell you what, he ruined the routine!"

"What routine?" Seto blinked. (A/N: For now on I'll refer to his conscience as "Seto.")

"I always insult him, and then he gets angry and complains, usually in a violent way. Then I knock him down and humiliate him like the dog that he is."

"Why?"

"Because Mutts like him need to be put in their places: Beneath me!"

"Why is he a 'Mutt,' Seto?"

"Because he just is!"

"Then what is your definition of 'Mutt?'" Seto challenged.

"What…?" Kaiba seethed.

"What is a 'Mutt?' I'd like to know."

"Fine! A mutt is plain and simple. Look at Joey Wheeler and you'll see my definition."

"Well…since you won't give me a clear definition. Then-"

"I don't have to tell you anything, you little runt!" Kaiba snapped at his conscience.

"Mr. Kaiba!" Morto called as Kaiba looked at the teacher. Kaiba could feel the stares coming from his classmates. "Do you need another week of detention?"

"No sir…" Kaiba sighed as he sunk in his chair.

"Then please refrain from talking." Morto said as he went back to grading papers, perhaps for another class.

"You see what being a jerk gets you, Seto Kaiba?" Seto said in an I-told-ya-so type of voice.

"Go away…" Kaiba seethed. "I already have enough problems without having you around."

"Maybe you wouldn't have those problems if you weren't a jerk."

"You know what I went through, so it's not my fault I'm the way I am!"

"That may be so, but that doesn't give you the right to take out your problems on others, especially Joey Wheeler."

Kaiba scoffed, "What does Wheeler have to do with this, anyway?"

"Isn't he the one who you take out most your aggressions on, besides your employees?" Seto reminded.

"What I do in my social life does not concern you!"

"I believe that it does, since I am your conscience after all…"

"Leave…" Kaiba hissed. He doesn't want to have anything to do with his conscience, much less in detention.

"Okay Seto Kaiba, but I'll be back…" And with a flash, Seto was gone, leaving Kaiba alone with Morto and the other students who had detention.

"Hmm…maybe I should stop pulling all-nighters…" Kaiba pondered as he went back to his drawing.

"What is up with that guy?" Arisa asked as she and Joey were leaving the school.

"Beats me…" Joey shrugged.

"What did you do to get Kaiba angry with you?"

"You tell me and we'll both know. At least he wasn't as bad as he was before…"

Arisa blinked. "What do you mean?"

"Let's just say that he's not out to kill anyone anymore." Joey said.

"You mean that Kaiba-"

"It's a long story…" Joey said as they were now on the sidewalk.

Arisa stopped. "Hey Joey…"

He looked back. "Yeah?"

"Could you carry me?" She asked.

"Uhh…sure." Joey nodded. "Why?"

"My feet are killing me…" Arisa admitted as she began to untie the laces of her black shoes. "I hate these shoes. They look so lame and they're uncomfortable as hell! I mean, these are shoes that my grandma would wear."

"Why don't you just buy new ones?" Joey suggested.

"I don't get my allowance until Friday. So for the rest of the week, I'm gonna be like you and wear sneakers." She slips out of them as she then tied the laces of both shoes together to keep them from getting lost. She then tossed them over her shoulder while holding onto the strings as she jumped onto Joey's back for a piggyback ride.

"So I take it we're goin' to yer house first?" Joey asked.

"Yeppers!" Arisa smiled. "Then it's to your house! I like to meet your mom…your dad wouldn't be around, right?"

"Nah...thank god…" Joey sighed in relief. "He's back in New York so there's no way he's coming back.

"Awesome!" Arisa squeezed her arms, which were around Joey's neck, tightly which caused him to gag a little.

"Arisa, take it easy." He complained.

"Oh…" Arisa giggled, "Sorry."

"S'okay… I'm used to it from my sister." He explained.

"Aren't you a nice guy!"

"I try…"

The two continued to laugh and talk until they came to a small teal-colored house. Arisa then hopped off of Joey's back.

"This is my house!" She said as she began to walk towards the door, with her magenta backpack in one hand, her shoes dangling by their laces in the other. "You want to come in?"

"Sorry, I gotta get home and change too!" Joey reminded.

"Oh come on!" Arisa pleaded as she then used her secret weapon: The dreaded "Chibi-Eyes." "Just for a second?"

Joey sighed, after making the mistake of looking at her emerald green eyes, "Oh alright! Might as well meet yer parents while we're at it…" He now follows her up the steps.

Kaiba's eyes opened up as he saw that the classroom was empty. "I must've overslept," he figured as he got up from his desk and grabbed his briefcase.

"Now with that crap over, time to make up the work I'd missed…" Kaiba muttered as he proceeded to leave the room. However, what he saw outside was not what he expected.

Instead of the familiar hallway with lockers and other doors leading to other classrooms, he saw what it appeared to be some type of computer lab.

"Did I end up in some type of cyber world?" Kaiba wondered as he continued to walk. "Probably another one of Wheeler's pathetic jokes…" He figured as he walked on. The path itself appeared to be never ending as Kaiba was already becoming annoyed. He was now certain that he was no longer in the school.

"Come on out and show yourself, Wheeler!" Kaiba demanded, but the only thing he heard was his voice in echo. "Wheeler, if you don't come out here, I swear to god I will fucking kill you!" Again, he could only hear himself echo as Kaiba walked on. After walking a few more feet, he approached a large computer screen which instantly switched on. It showed his picture with 5 golden stars below, and on the right was a picture of his most rarest card: Blue Eyes White Dragon.

"Name: Seto Kaiba. Rank: Five Stars. Rarest Card: Blue Eyes White Dragon." A voice from the computer stated.

"Tell me something I don't know…" Kaiba muttered as smirk came to his face. He remembered how he humiliated Joey by ranking him as a One-Star duelist, even though he was the runner up at Duelist Kingdom. He wished that he was there to see the look on his face when he saw his rank. He knew that it was unfair, but then again. How could he possibly be good duelist if he uses a Gamble Deck?

Suddenly, the screen flashed as the picture of the Blue Eyes White Dragon Card was replaced with three. Kaiba blinked in response. "What the hell?"

The Screen flashed again, as this time three cards disappeared from the screen as Three Blue Eyes appeared in front of him, much to Kaiba's shock. "What is the meaning of this!?"

"Seto Kaiba!" One of them roared. "You are not worthy of having us in your deck!"

"Why would we ever serve a malicious murderer such as you, Kaiba?" The second hissed.

"What are you talking about?" Kaiba responded to the dragons.

"How could you not!?" The third Blue Eyes snapped. "You killed our brother, Murderer!"

"What are you talking about, there's only-" Kaiba just remembered: Yugi's Grandfather owned a Blue Eyes before he ripped it apart. 'I knew that would come back to haunt me one day…' He thought.

"As my brother said before Kaiba, you are not worthy of having us in your deck! There is only one person who is worthy of having us in his deck!"

"That's impossible, there's no duelist in the world more worthy than me!" Kaiba yelled as suddenly a figure walked out from the shadows. He was wearing black and white sneakers, black jeans… "No…" White T-shirt… "No, it can't be…" Denim Blue Jacket… "No please… anyone but him! If there's any justice in this world, it's not him!" Brown eyes, and slightly-messy blonde hair! "No…NOT WHEELER!"

"What's the matter, Moneybags?" Joey smiled. "Yer not happy to see me?"

"Mutt, if you don't give me my Blue Eyes back right now…" Kaiba threatened.

"I don't think yer in any position to make threats right now, Seahorse." Joey retorted.

"I'm warning you…" Kaiba seethed. "Give me the Blue Eyes, right now!"

"Hey Big Bro, what's going on?" Serenity walked up, dressed in the Domino Middle School female uniform.

"It's nothing, Sis. Just hanging with Kaibs and the Blue Eyes." Joey grinned.

"Come on, Joey!" a familiar ran up to him, dressed in the Domino High School female Uniform. "I want to play with the Blue Eyes, too!"

"You…" Kaiba muttered, within closer inspection, Kaiba knew who she was. "You're that girl who was with Wheeler! Mallovic, right?"

Arisa ignored Kaiba as she continued to ask, "Please Joey!" She gave him the chibi eyes.

"Can I play with them too, Big Brother?" Serenity asked, also giving him the chibi eyes.

"Damn, not the eyes…" Joey complained. Kaiba would've been amused, had it not been for the fact that for some reason, Joey had control of his Blue Eyes, and Serenity and Arisa, two girls who have been responsible for his testicles being bruised for two days straight counting today, were now asking to use them. This was an outrage! "Oh alright, you can take one. After all, there are three of them here!"

"THE HELL YOU'RE TAKING ONE!" Kaiba roared. "THOSE ARE MY BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGONS AND YOU KNOW IT JOEY WHEELER! THEY BELONG FOR ME!"

Joey shook his head in pity while giving a small smile. "Kaiba Kaiba Kaiba…"

"Kaiba Kaiba Kaiba…" His sister and girlfriend copied Joey's actions.

"You have a lot to learn about Dragons. For one: You don't choose them, they choose you! And two…" The Three Blue Eyes landed on the ground next to Joey and co. Joey, Arisa, and Serenity each have a dragon next to them. "They're great for teaching certain snobbish, heartless bastards a lesson."

"DON'T YOU DARE LECTURE ME ABOUT MY DRAGONS YOU STUPID MONGREL!" Kaiba yelled. "LIKE I SAID BEFORE, I WANT MY DRAGONS, AND I'M NOT LEAVING UNTIL I GET THEM!"

Joey sighed. "You want them, you got 'em…" He then looked towards his sister on one side, and his girlfriend on the other.

"Blue Eyes, attack position!" The three ordered as their Blue Eyes got into attack position.

"YOU WOULDN'T DARE, WHEELER…" Kaiba taunted.

"Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack with White Lightning!" They ordered as the Blue Eyes fired their White Lightning directly at Kaiba.

Kaiba, fearing that the end was near, tried to shield himself from the three blasts, but knew that it was futile as he then let out a painful scream as the blasts hit.

Kaiba's head snapped up from the desk, wide eyed. It was just another dream again. That was the second time Joey invaded his dreams. Now it appeared that everone has left, saved for Morto.

"So you're finally awake Mr. Kaiba." Morto said with a grin. "You're free to go."

"Thanks…" Kaiba muttered as he grabbed his briefcase and left the room. It was just another nightmare, but this time was worse. At least Wheeler didn't take control of his cards in the first nightmare like he did in this one. "Why am I having these nightmares…"

"I don't know… maybe because you have bad karma?" A familiar young voice suggests.

Kaiba looked down and saw his conscience. "You!"

"Maybe your guilt is finally catching up with you, thus why they're interfering in your dreams: The ripping of Yugi's grandfather's Blue Eyes White Dragon card, the unfair ranking of Joey Wheeler just so you could humiliate him. Just to name a few…" Seto chuckled. "As they say, 'what goes around comes around!'"

"If I needed someone to dictate on how to live my life, I might give you a call. Otherwise, butt out!"

"Need I remind you that if you don't change your ways, your dreams may become a reality."

Kaiba narrowed his eyes. "So you're the reason why I'm having these dreams. Why you little-"

Seto held up his hands in defense. "Nonono, I don't make dreams, I just observe them."

"Whatever…" Kaiba brushed off his younger self of a conscience. "I have more important things to do…"

"Ahh yes, another stressful day at Kaiba Corp…or should I say night? You're really the workaholic, aren't you?"

"It keeps me and Mokuba out of poverty, does it not?" Kaiba retorted.

"Yes, but is the well-being of you and Mokie more important than money?"

"If I don't have money, we'll be out on the street and Mokuba will be at an orphanage!" Kaiba blinked. "Did you just call Mokuba 'Mokie?'"

"Of course! After all, I am your conscience so I know a lot about you." Seto stated.

Kaiba snickered. "Know about me? Try to prove it."

"Okay then…" Seto sighed. "You're the CEO of Kaiba Corp, a weapon-development-turned-gaming company. You were placed into an orphanage after your parents died. Adopted at the age of 12 by Gozaburo Kaiba. Former World Champion of Duel Monsters! Favorite Card is Blue Eyes White Dragon, the Number One Duelist aside from Yugi Moto and Maximillion Pegasus!"

"Hmph…any good hacker could've found that information out! The new direction of the Kaiba Corporation was broadcasted worldwide so any moron with a TV would've known. And as far as Duel Monsters goes." Kaiba hmphed, "Let's just say that if I had every dime for every fool who told me that, I'd be three times richer than I already am."

"Okay then, let's get personal…" Seto sighed. "Your favorite type of music is classical. You enjoy Stephen King books! You at one time dyed your hair green, but decided that you were better as a brunette. And your shoe size is 13!"

Kaiba laughed. "Good one. That's really embarrassing." He said sarcastically.

"Okay then… now for the juicy stuff…" The young boy rubbed his hands together with a mischievous grin. "Your favorite part of a woman is the…well…busoms. Your dream girl is tall, leggy, has nice eyes, and of course…" Seto cups his hands as he then does a squeezing motion. "Your idea of a good date is a dinner, a move, a nice romantic walk on the beach which is immediately followed by s-"

"Enough!" Kaiba hissed at Seto. "For someone who's a kid, you sure have some perverted thoughts!"

"Just because I may look like a kid doesn't mean I have to think like one." Seto said with a chuckle.

"I wish you were…" Kaiba muttered, but then had the thought of "Seto" being even more annoying as a kid. "Nevermind."

Seto chuckled. "You see? I know everything about you!"

"Whatever…" Kaiba muttered as he walked towards his limo.

Wow…who would've thought that Kaiba actually had a conscience. Okay, so he does have one, but he hardly ever listens to it, if ever. Anyways, next chapter! Joey introduces Arisa to the gang. However, not everyone will be happy to see her. That's all I'm gonna say.